JL #29 "The Christmas Eve Terror!"

JL #29 AFTERWARD

So, what did you think? As I mentioned in the  FORWARD, this is one of my favorite issues. In fact, it's probably in my Top Five, which is outrageous since it, in theory,  has so much going against it! 

JL #29 FORWARD

On paper this issue should be one of my least favorites:  the story is an adaptation of a Gerry Conway story but I'm not really a fan of his run on JLA;  the characters featured are not most of my favorites; , and the theme of Christmas is always a minefield. So perhaps precisely *because* my expectations are lower, I'm always pleasantly surprised when I re-read this story that it holds up so well?

New Pronunciation Key

In JL #27 I introduced a new system of pronunciation keys for the English words. If you don't know how Japanese works it's kind of difficult to explain, but over each Japanese word (such as Justice League in the title shown directly below) I write smaller Japanese characters as pronunciation. However, because the Japanese sounds are fewer and more stringent than English, words like "cup" and "cap" end up being given the same pronunciations in Japanese. I added a "dot" or a "triangle" to try to help differentiate the sounds. Obviously, it didn't work. :-)